Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

After Luo Chen reluctantly agreed to support Zheng Zaixu and Tokugawa Qingxi, the court meeting ended directly.

Later, Lin Yi asked Yang Bing to pull out the imperial [-]-year-old standard rifle that had been built from the arsenal and take the lead in replacing the Long Xiang army still near the capital.

It needs to be mentioned here that at this time, the Long Xiang Army had recruited 20 people, which was a full 12 divisions. The entire Longxiang Army has more than doubled in size compared to the previous First Army.

However, due to insufficient production capacity of semi-automatic rifles, Lin Yi could only replace some of the weapons.

The first batch of weapons to assist Zheng Zaixu and Tokugawa Qingxi only collected [-] rifles.

Seeing that the production capacity of the weapons research institute's arsenal was so low, Lin Yi asked Zhao Xi to arrange people to expand the production capacity of the arsenal.

Although it was said that [-] weapons had been collected, Lin Yi was not in a hurry to send people to celebrate Zheng Zaixu and Tokugawa.

Instead, let people negotiate with Zheng Zaixu and Tokugawa Qingxi first. As for the content of the negotiation, of course it is how to pay for this assistance.

At this time, Zheng Zaixu was okay. Although the situation in the Goryeo area was tense, Cui Dongxu and Zheng Zaixu were still restrained, so the progress on Zheng Zaixu's side was relatively slow.

On the contrary, Tokugawa Kexi has become angry.

Tokugawa Yoshiki and Meiji have become locked in a fight to the death.

No matter who wins, the other side will only die.

Not only Tokugawa Kexi knew about this matter, Ming Ming also knew about it, including the subordinates of the two of them.

Therefore, from the beginning, Tokugawa Keki and Meiji did not have any temptations. They wanted to kill each other from the beginning.

Now, the entire Kitakyushu City has turned into a Shura field, where the two sides started a fierce tug-of-war.

At the beginning, Meiji should have had four battleships, which allowed his army to land on Kyushu Island very smoothly.

However, as the Meiji Army deepened, the Tokugawa Army began to launch a crazy attack on the Meiji Army.

The armies of both sides quickly became entangled, thus minimizing the threat from Meiji's warships.

After all, if one shot goes down, not only the Tokugawa troops will die, but many Meiji troops will also be buried with them.

In fact, if this kind of thing happened in the past, those naval generals might not care, but now...

With the sinking of a large number of Sakura Kingdom's warships and the huge indemnity, and the inability to replenish the warships, the Sakura Kingdom's navy has less and less say in the military department.

Moreover, the current Prime Minister Terauchi Seiichi was originally from the army, so he also has some generals who exclude the navy.

Under such double blessing, the Sakura Kingdom Navy has been completely marginalized.

This has also led to the growing gap between the Navy and the Army.

In terms of the navy's thinking, since I fired artillery to support you and you think there was accidental damage, then I simply won't fire artillery or support.

If you are a tough guy in the army, just fight it yourself.

Therefore, under this thought, the remaining naval warships of Sakura Kingdom only block Kyushu Island and protect the route from Honshu Island to Kyushu Island.

As for the waters west of Kyushu Island, the navy of the Sakura Kingdom was very wise and did not patrol.

The sea area west of Kyushu Island has become Daxia's back garden. If you go there, you will be hostile to Daxia.

Meiji, with only four battleships left, could only abandon the waters west of Kyushu Island.

Under such circumstances, Daxia's envoy came to Nagasaki very easily.

The envoy from Daxia met with Tokugawa Qingxi very smoothly.

Since the Meiji Army has now landed on Kyushu Island, this is a very dangerous thing for Tokugawa Keki.

After all, he is now at a disadvantage and his team may collapse one day.

And the consequence of the army's collapse was that he would die.

Now, Tokugawa Qingxi agreed to the conditions proposed by Daxia without even thinking about it.

In his words, so what if you don't agree?

If he fails, he will only die, and even if he wants to guard those mines, it is useless, they do not belong to him.

On the contrary, as long as Meiji can be defeated, then if you give Daxia some minerals, won't you still have some left?

As long as he can return to the pinnacle of power in Sakura Country, everything will be worth it.

Tokugawa Qingxi even hoped that Daxia would ask for more, so that Daxia could increase its assistance to him.

Finally, Tokugawa Keiki signed a contract with the envoy of Daxia, using the Iwami Ginzan and the three copper mines on Honshu Island that were still in Meiji's hands as collateral, and Daxia provided Tokugawa Keiki with the weapons of four divisions.

The weapons mentioned here are not only 98K rifles, but also include one thousand heavy machine guns and two thousand light machine guns.

It can be said that except for the lack of artillery and the lack of artillery, the current Tokugawa Army is not as good as the previous First Army. The other firepower is almost the same as that of the Daxia Army during the First Army.

Tokugawa Kexi was confident that under such firepower, the Meiji troops landing on Kyushu Island could be wiped out. It is even possible to counterattack Honshu Island.

After all, the previous Daxia Army could do it, so there is no reason why our own Tokugawa Army can't do it.

Even if there are fewer artillery, the worst thing is that more people will die. Anyway, there is not much on our side, just more people, which is not worth it.

Are you kidding? When will the noble Tokugawa family care about the life and death of the lower class?

Therefore, when both parties were satisfied, Daxia and Tokugawa secretly reached an agreement, and the first batch of 98 [-]K rifles would arrive in Nagasaki within a week.

A week passed quickly. During this period, the Tokugawa Army and the Meiji Army were still fighting for control of Kitakyushu.

But it was obvious that the Tokugawa Army was somewhat unable to hold on. If Daxia's support arrived a few days later, the Tokugawa Army might collapse.

When Daxia's weapons arrived in Nagasaki, Tokugawa also had them transported to the front line.

The Tokugawa army, which received Daxia weapons assistance, quickly fought a beautiful battle of annihilation in Kitakyushu.

Koizumi Jiro performed exceptionally well in this annihilation battle. After one of his divisions received weapons assistance, he used the strength of one division to hold back the attack of one division of the Meiji Army and one brigade.

This created the conditions for the Tokugawa Army in the rear to completely annihilate the Meiji Army's [-]th Division.

When the news of the annihilation of the [-]th Division reached the ears of Meiji and Tokugawa Yoshiki, the two men reacted differently.

Tokugawa celebrated with ecstasy, while Meiji was impotent and furious.

In his palace, Meiji cursed the division commander of the [-]th Division for his incompetence, which ruined the good situation before.

But after scolding, Meiji also started to feel worried.

Now that he has lost a division, his morale has plummeted, while Tokugawa Keki's morale has greatly increased, and he has launched a local counterattack in Kitakyushu.

This made Meiji start to worry about the situation on the front line.

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